Re: Curious as to how Cassandra handles the following

2010-09-26 Thread Benjamin Black
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Lucas Nodine wrote: > Ok, so based on everyone's input it seems that I need to put some sort of > server in front of Cassandra to handle locking and exclusive access. > > I am planning on building a system (DMS) that will store resources > (document, images, media,

Re: Curious as to how Cassandra handles the following

2010-09-26 Thread Lucas Nodine
Ok, so based on everyone's input it seems that I need to put some sort of server in front of Cassandra to handle locking and exclusive access. I am planning on building a system (DMS) that will store resources (document, images, media, etc) using Cassandra for data. As my target user is going to

Re: Curious as to how Cassandra handles the following

2010-09-26 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Atomic (all of it will complete, or none), but not isolated (readers can see parts of a write before they see the whole thing). On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Aaron Morton wrote: > Mutations against a single key on a single machine are > atomic http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#batch_mutate_

Re: Curious as to how Cassandra handles the following

2010-09-26 Thread Aaron Morton
Mutations against a single key on a single machine are atomic http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#batch_mutate_atomicAaronOn 27 Sep, 2010,at 07:48 AM, Norman Maurer wrote:To be more clear (maybe I was not before). BatchMutate is not atomic. So it only "batch up" mutates to reduce overhead. So it

Re: Curious as to how Cassandra handles the following

2010-09-26 Thread Norman Maurer
To be more clear (maybe I was not before). BatchMutate is not atomic. So it only "batch up" mutates to reduce overhead. So it can be that you will receive data from it even if the whole operation is not complete or will not complete. bye, Norman 2010/9/26 Norman Maurer : > Comments inside.. > >

Re: Curious as to how Cassandra handles the following

2010-09-26 Thread Norman Maurer
Comments inside.. 2010/9/26 Lucas Nodine : > I'm looking at a design where multiple clients will connect to Cassandra and > get/mutate resources, possibly concurrently.  After planning a bit, I ran > into the following scenero for which I have not been able to research to > find an answer sufficie

Re: Curious as to how Cassandra handles the following

2010-09-26 Thread Benjamin Black
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Lucas Nodine wrote: > I'm looking at a design where multiple clients will connect to Cassandra and > get/mutate resources, possibly concurrently.  After planning a bit, I ran > into the following scenero for which I have not been able to research to > find an answ

Curious as to how Cassandra handles the following

2010-09-26 Thread Lucas Nodine
I'm looking at a design where multiple clients will connect to Cassandra and get/mutate resources, possibly concurrently. After planning a bit, I ran into the following scenero for which I have not been able to research to find an answer sufficient for my needs. I have found where others have rec